Author Archive: Retro

The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant’s irresponsibility results in a crisis.

Young lovers pursued by her father — and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.

A boy from Ireland comes to America and makes good, but he doesn’t forget the poverty he left behind. He returns to rescue his sweetheart just as her family is about to be evicted from their land.

Mae Marsh stars in this film based on the popular novel “In the Garden of Charity” by the Canadian writer Basil King. Produced by Vitagraph, it was the final American silent film for Marsh.What survives of the original 70-minute film is a 21-minute abridgment that was released in 1930 as “The Sea Repays.” The condensed version is a little hard to follow, but Marsh is married to Paul (Ben Hendricks, Jr.) who gets bored and goes off to India with his regiment. We see him there dallying with a married woman. After his discharge he’s en route for home but goes overboard and is washed up on an island where a woman (Laska Winter)takes him in. After a while he gets bored and decides to go home to Marsh. She takes him to Hunger Island and is supposed to tell people where they can pick him up … but she does not.She goes back to [...]

Enrico, a poor street singer, forsakes his sweetheart, Veronica, when he meets a fashionably-dressed young woman. A rich couple takes pity on the shabbily-dressed Veronica, and buys her a new gown. At a dance, Enrico sees Veronica in her new dress and tries to win her back.